index.Rmd

--- 
title: "Biomedical Data Science - introduction with case studies"
author: "BIOF1001 teaching team"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
output: bookdown::gitbook
documentclass: book
bibliography: [book.bib, packages.bib]
biblio-style: apalike
link-citations: yes
github-repo: rstudio/bookdown-demo
description: "This is a minimal example of using the bookdown package to write a book. The output format for this example is bookdown::gitbook."
---

```{r set-options, include=FALSE, purl=FALSE}
# knitr pkg is needed throughout book
if (!"knitr" %in% installed.packages()) {
  install.packages("knitr", repos = "http://cran.rstudio.com")
}
library(knitr)
# Set output options
if (is_html_output()) {
  options(width = 80)
}
if (is_latex_output()) {
  options(width = 75)
}
options(digits = 7, bookdown.clean_book = TRUE, knitr.kable.NA = "NA")
```


# Welcome {-}
Welcome to the book [Biomedical Data Science - an introduction with case studies](). 
Most contents are demonstrated with R programming language.

This book is designed as a collection of R Markdown notebooks, as supplementary 
to the lecture notes for the course 
[BIOF1001: Introduction to Biomedical Data Science](),
an undergraduate course (Year 1) at the University of Hong Kong.

**Note:** Most contents may be only updated before or right after the lectures, 
so please refer to the updated version.


**GitHub Repository:** you can find the source files on
[StatBiomed/BMDS-book](https://github.com/StatBiomed/BMDS-book) and the way to re-build this book.